La Parisienne (film)
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| Directed by | Michel Boisrond |
| Produced by | Angelo Rizzoli |
| Written by |
Jean Aurel Jacques Emmanuel Michel Boisrond Annette Wademant |
| Based on |
La Parisienne 1885 play by Henry Becque |
| Starring |
Charles Boyer Brigitte Bardot Henri Vidal |
| Music by |
Henri Crolla André Hodeir Hubert Rostaing |
| Cinematography | Marcel Grignon |
| Edited by | Adrienne Fazan |
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| Distributed by | Cinédis |
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Release date
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16 December 1957 (France) 30 July 1958 (US) |
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Running time
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86 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $450.000 |
| Box office | $29.3 million |
La Parisienne is a 1957 Technicolor French comedy film starring Brigitte Bardot, Charles Boyer and Henri Vidal, directed by Michel Boisrond. Bardot plays the daughter of the French President who marries her father's secretary, but the couple becomes jealous of each other's purported sexual flings. Dialogue is French, dubbed version available.
Brigitte Laurier (Brigitte Bardot), daughter of the President of France, is madly in love with Michel Legrand (Henri Vidal), the chief of staff of her father. He tries to evade her, but she follows him to the airport as he meets his mistress, Mrs. Wilson (Madeleine Lebeau), who intends to divorce her husband to marry Michel. He continues to shut down Brigitte's repeated sexual advances, but he finds that hard to do, as she has just appointed herself to an internship as Michel's secretary.
She creates a ruse whereby Michel is tricked into delivering urgent papers to the President (André Luguet), who is spending the weekend hunting in the countryside. Michel's former mistress, Caroline d'Herblay, and her politician husband are also at the same hunting event, and Mrs. d'Herblay insists that Michel stay the weekend. The President asks his daughter why she tricked Michel like this, and she proclaims her unrequited love for Michel as her father balks at her silliness.
Michel and Mrs. d'Herblay reunite secretly in the woods and they arrange a rendezvous later in the night once her husband is asleep. As she slips out of her room later that night, her husband fakes snoring and follows her, suspecting she is up to no good. At the same time, Brigitte heads to Michel's room and surprises him -- as he was expecting Mme d'Herblay -- and she tells him she wants to be his mistress and promises never to speak of marriage. They kiss, but Mrs. d'Herblay walks in on them and a scene erupts. Mr. d'Herblay (Noël Roquevert) himself hears vaguely sexual sounds emanating from the President's room (as he is lighting his smoking pipe), and a separate scene erupts whereby Mr. d'Herbaly wakes up everyone in the house -- i.e., the Cabinet of France -- as they investigate who is in Michel's locked room. Mrs. d'Herblay is hidden and Brigitte is revealed to be in Michel's bed in front of the entire French government, thus embarrassing the President. Not wanting to cause a scandal, Michel and Brigitte are forced to be married by her father. During their honeymoon, Michel tells Brigitte he is glad he married her, but she is unsure. When they return to France, she tells her father she is sure Michel will cheat on her sooner or later, but her father is sure he will not.
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